Peter Jackson says Halo Chronicles “no longer happening”

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Peter Jackson won’t be making his video game directorial debut with the long-rumored episodic Halo Chronicles series of games, as the famed director stated that the “project is no longer happening.”

“It sort of collapsed when the movie didn’t end up happening,” explained Jackson in an interview with gaming blog Joystiq. “When the [film] rights expired with [Fox and Universal] studios, that sort of ended my involvement with the project.”

The director who became a household name with the Lord of the Rings film trilogy was quick to add that the collapse could be blamed more on Hollywood and less on Microsoft’s ambitious plans for the Halo franchise: “[The Halo movie] fell apart because of internal politics at Fox and Universal. It had nothing to do with the budget or anything else.”

Jackson’s appearance at last weekend’s San Diego Comic-Con was driven partially by the upcoming movie District 9, a project that rose from the ashes of the Halo film that wasn’t meant to be. Jackson said that “District 9 was definitely born out of the Halo film ruins, and we wouldn’t have seen this movie if Halohad gone ahead.”

Halo Chronicles was the name supposedly given to a series of episodic games set in the Halo universe, to be produced by Microsoft under Jackson’s direction. Also rumored to be involved was Ryan Payton, a former Konami assistantproducer on Metal Gear Solid 4, as well as Corinne Yu, a technologist plucked from Gearbox Software (Brothers in Arms series). Those two are believed to be at 343 Industries, Microsoft’s internal division handling all things Halo.

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Probably discovered that the kiddie consols just couldn’t cut the cake. Example. RPG games are always best on PC. I say FPS games are too because you have much better aim control with a mouse. I will not buy any FPS game for my PS3.